20th century

The 20th century was a century that began on
January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s (sometimes written as 19XX), which began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999.

Overview

The century had the first global-scale total wars between world powers across continents and oceans in World War I and World War II. Nationalism became a major political issue in the world in the 20th century, acknowledged in international law along with the right of nations to self-determination, official decolonization in the mid-century, and nationalist-influenced armed regional-conflicts.

20th century

The 20th century was a century that began on
January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s (sometimes written as 19XX), which began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999.

Overview

The century had the first global-scale total wars between world powers across continents and oceans in World War I and World War II. Nationalism became a major political issue in the world in the 20th century, acknowledged in international law along with the right of nations to self-determination, official decolonization in the mid-century, and nationalist-influenced armed regional-conflicts.

A new exhibition, which celebrates the cultural relationship between the East and the West through 19th and 20thcenturypaintings, prints and screens, will open at Louvre Abu Dhabi next month ... fundamental contribution of Japanese aesthetics to the development of decorative principles of modern painting in France at the end of the 19th century.”....

RENO (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit a Western art collector filed against a prestigious auction house and the owner of a Reno gallery who claimed an early 20thcentury cowboy painting he sold for $750,000 was a fake ...Hubbard a 1937 oil painting wasn't an original work of Frank Tenney Johnson ... Stremmel's opinion about the painting and kept him in the dark about plaintiff's involvement, a finding that Mr....

— A federal judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit a Western art collector filed against a prestigious auction house and the owner of a Reno gallery who claimed an early 20thcentury cowboy painting he sold for $750,000 was a fake ...Hubbard a 1937 oil painting wasn’t an original work of Frank Tenney Johnson ... the painting was worthless....

... is also the era when this painting’s impressionistic style became fashionable ... V From the series The Necessary Respite,” the installation also includes photographic cutouts and an antique geography textbook, all of which components reference a seven-year interval of relative peace and prosperity in Cuba shortly before the dawn of the 20thcentury....

On trial before her were two men accused of forging paintings by artists including Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky, whose angular, abstract compositions can now go for eight-figure prices ... One witness, arguably the world’s leading Malevich authority, argued that the paintings were unquestionably fakes ... Wary of being caught, more and more forgers are copying works from the early to mid-20thcentury....

On her HGTV show, Restored by the Fords, LeanneFordpaints everything white, so it's no surprise that her tiny, early 20th-century four-room cabin in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles would be white ... The brother and sister generally renovate dark or outdated houses and revamp the space so that it has a modern yet rustic feel that involves a lot of light and a whole lot of bright white paint ... Let'spaint it white." ... Paint white."....

With the 11 paintings in “Lacing, Landing,” Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann takes on a challenge, creating a fully contemporary environmental view that has its roots in Chinese landscape, a tradition that dates back more than a century and picks up elements of mid-20thcentury abstraction along the way ... “How can a painting capture flux, abundance, waste, fertility, and the collision and collusion of diverse forms?”....

The history of these market-cap distinctions, viewed over time, paints a historical portrait of America’s changing corporate landscape — from the dominance of industrials for most of the 20thcentury, to the dawn of ......